Engineering, Science, and Society

Confusion about coronavirus testing and the role of testing capacity

2020 March 30

by Daniel Lakeland

Here’s some code to simulate a process whereby we saturate testing capacity… First the graphs:

Confirmed cases (blue) follows the real cases (red) so long as the cases per day are below the maximum… once we saturate, the green line increases linearly, and so does the blue line…Green line (tests) parallels the blue (positive tests), as we saturate